"Are we allowed to receive men visitors in the house ?" chorused a group of girls, questioned in a fashionable employment agency.

"Mostly our friends are not allowed to step inside the areaway while we are putting on our hats to go out." There is no escaping the conclusion that a large part of the social evil, or that branch of it recruited every year from domestic service, is traceable to American methods of dealing with servants.

The domestic, belonging, as a rule, to a weak and inefficient class, is literally driven into paths where only strength and efficiency could possibly protect her from evil.
Servants share, in common with all other human beings, the necessity for human intercourse.

They must have associates, friends, companions.

If they cannot meet them in their homes they must seek them outside.
Walk through the large parks in any city, late in the evening, and observe the couples who occupy obscurely placed benches.